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World Records (Miscellaneous)

An ESPN reporter set a new world's record for longest (successful) cornhole toss.
ESPN announcer breaks world record for longest cornhole shot

An ESPN announcer broke the Guinness World Record for the longest cornhole throw when he tossed a corn-filled bag 76 feet into a hole in a wooden target.

Marty Smith attempted the record ahead of Saturday's football game between the University of Georgia and the University of Tennessee. ...

A Guinness World Records adjudicator was present during the attempt, which was aired live on SEC Network.

Smith sank his shot from a distance of 76 feet, beating the record of 75 feet and 1 inch, which was set by Jonny Gordon in November 2021. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/1...cord-for-longest-cornhole-shot/3611667854319/
 
This Danish archer shot 7 consecutive arrows through a 10mm keyhole opening.
Danish archer shoots 7 arrows through keyhole for world record


A professional archer from Denmark broke a Guinness World Record by shooting seven arrows in a row through a tiny keyhole.

Lars Anderson, who posts his archery stunts to his YouTube page, took on the Guinness World Record for most consecutive arrows shot in a row through a keyhole in Lyngby. ...

Anderson successfully shot the arrows through a keyhole that Guinness mandated could be no more than 10 millimeters -- about .39 inch -- wide. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/1...ds-arrows-shot-through-keyhole/4501667945648/
 
The calavera catrina is a traditional "female" skeleton figure prominent in Mexican Day of the Dead festivities. The city of Puerto Vallarta has earned a Guinness record for the tallest catrina figure ever built.

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Giant calavera catrina in Mexico breaks record as world’s tallest

This year’s Day of the Dead celebrations in the Mexican coastal city of Puerto Vallarta were like no other.

Those visiting the Faro del Malecon, one of Puerto Vallarta’s landmarks, witnessed a Mexican tradition that continues making history.

A huge calavera catrina was unveiled during the town’s annual Day of the Dead Festival, rising above the city’s skyline at 22.67 m (74 ft 4.87 in) tall. ...

With this elegant and feminine skeleton-like figure, the city of Puerto Vallarta achieved the Guinness World Records title for the tallest calavera catrina on 2 November 2022. ...
SOURCE: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.co...mexico-breaks-record-as-worlds-tallest-725777
 
A Welsh man has set a new Guinness record for the most pubs visited (with a drink taken in each one) in a 24 hour period.
Welsh man drinks at 56 pubs in 24 hours for Guinness World Record

The record has just been broken, but it was an Englishman who did it ... The new record holder confessed it was a lot more difficult than he'd expected, and he spent most of his time going to the toilet.
Man visits 67 pubs in 24 hours to break world record

The record for most pubs visited (and minimum drink taken) in a 24 hour period has been broken again. Certification was apparently delayed, because the record pub crawl occurred last February.

Man visits 78 pubs in 24 hours to break Guinness World Record

A South African man living in Australia broke a Guinness World Record by taking an epic pub crawl to 78 different establishments in a 24-hour period.

Heinrich de Villiers received word from Guinness World Records that his Feb. 10-11 pub crawl across Melbourne with a support team consisting of brother Ruald de Villiers and friend Wessel Burger has been certified as the record for most pubs visited in 24 hours (individual).

De Villiers took the record from Englishman Nathan Crimp, who visited 67 pubs in the Brighton, England, area in a 24-hour period.

"It is important to note that, as per the Guinness World Record rules, we only had to consume 125 milliliters [4.2 ounces] of any drink at each place we visited" ...
SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/1...rld-Records-most-pubs-24-hours/1981668187221/
 
This Texas woman has been Guinness-certified as having the world's largest (female) feet.
Houston woman has the world's largest feet

A Texas woman who stands at 6 feet and 9 inches tall was awarded a Guinness World Record for having the world's largest feet.

Guinness World Records announced Tanya Herbert of Houston was bestowed the title of largest feet on a living person (female) after her right foot was measured at 13.03 inches long and her left foot was measured at 12.79 inches long. ...

Herbert wears a women's size 18 shoes or a men's size 16-17, depending on the brand. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/11/16/Guinness-World-Records-largest-feet-woman/8651668616147/
 
Guinness world record holder (as of two years ago) for the lowest singing voice ..

 
This Texas woman has been Guinness-certified as having the world's largest (female) feet.

FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/11/16/Guinness-World-Records-largest-feet-woman/8651668616147/
I guess when she dies, some-one with smaller feet can claim her record of having the world's largest feet on a living person. Fanny Mills, the Ohio Big Foot Girl should be recognised as having the world's largest feet (female) (19") until bigger platters come along.

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A Chinese man has been Guinness-certified as building the tallest house of cards created in 12 hours or less.
Chinese man builds 50-story house of cards to break world record

A Chinese man put his precision to the test by building a 50-story house of cards in a single day to break a Guinness World Record.

Tian Rui of Qingdao, Shangdong Province, took on the record for tallest house of cards built in 12 hours and completed his 50-level structure in only 5 hours and 4 minutes. ...

The finished house of cards measured 11 feet, 0.7 inches tall.

Guinness World Records required the house to remain standing for at least 10 minutes to qualify for the record.
SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/11/21/Guinness-World-Records-house-of-cards/8451669062600/
 
An English viola player has been Guinness certified as the new record holder for a musician who's played the longest with a single orchestra.
Viola player sticks with same orchestra for 71 years, earns world record

An 86-year-old viola player in England was awarded a Guinness World Record after playing with the same orchestra for over 71 years.

The record-keeping organization confirmed Ann Miller was the new record holder for longest career as a player for the same orchestra after playing viola for the Redhill Sinfonia in Surrey for 71 years and 194 days. ...

Miller, who is still active with the group, first played with the Redhill Sinfonia at age 14 and has now been with the organization for 73 seasons.

Miller took the record from bass player Jane Little, who spent 71 years playing for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/1...cords-longest-orchestra-career/9751669753660/
 

Japanese man travels 4,000 miles to spell ‘marry me’ on Google Earth


Back in 2008, Yasushi 'Yassan' Takahashi wanted to find an original way to propose to his girlfriend. So he went on a journey that took him 4000 miles (7,163 kilometers) over a period of six months.

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He did this to create the world’s biggest GPS art. The event also garnered him a Guinness World Book Record.

And did his girlfriend say yes? Of course she did!

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/man-travels-4000-miles-marriage

maximus otter
 

Japanese man travels 4,000 miles to spell ‘marry me’ on Google Earth


Back in 2008, Yasushi 'Yassan' Takahashi wanted to find an original way to propose to his girlfriend. So he went on a journey that took him 4000 miles (7,163 kilometers) over a period of six months.

RZRfojJ5H3L6gzlvFNBoBqq5rln0ZlRsMgaKY8JT.jpg


He did this to create the world’s biggest GPS art. The event also garnered him a Guinness World Book Record.

And did his girlfriend say yes? Of course she did!

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/man-travels-4000-miles-marriage

maximus otter
I can imagine the embarrassment if he had misspelled it! I wonder, though: why in English?
 
‘The glory is worth it,’ says world record holder for most baubles in beard

A man in the United States has broken his own Guinness World Record for the most beard baubles in a beard by wearing 710 Christmas ornaments attached to his facial hair.

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Joel Strasser from Kuna, Idaho, has decked the halls and his own face while wearing the “beardaments,” festive clip-on accessories that require a lot of technique.

“My technique has evolved and gotten a lot more specialised over the years that I’ve been breaking the record,” Mr Strasser said.

“I stuck them in a lot more haphazardly at first and that’s why those first beard bauble record numbers were so low.

Mr Strasser first broke the record in 2019 using 302 baubles, then again in 2020 with 542 baubles, and a third time in 2021 with 686 baubles.

The process is a tedious one, as this year’s bunch took two and a half hours to attach.

https://www.suffolknews.co.uk/natio...ecord-holder-for-most-baubles-in-beard-76685/

maximus otter
 
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Some people have a lot of time on their hands (as well as a lot of baubles).
 
"Take away that bauble!"
--- Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England (dismissing the Rump Parliament)
 
A community project in Portugal has produced a crocheted Xmas tree over 55 feet in height. The participants are awaiting Guinness' evaluation regarding whether this is a certifiable new world's record.

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World's largest crocheted Christmas tree made in Portugal

The organizers of a crochet project in Portugal said they may have broken a Guinness World Record when their crocheted Christmas tree reached more than 55 feet tall.

The Associação de Moradores Unidos da Apelação, a residents' group in Loures, Lisbon, said the project started as a means of providing social activities for elderly residents after two years of pandemic shut-downs, but the project soon grew to involve 70 people from ages 11 to 88. ...

"We never thought this project would be so successful. We initially thought of a small tree measuring 3-4 meters and then, as we realized that there would be many people involved, we advanced to a 17-meter [55.7-foot] tree and entered it in the Guinness Book of Records," project coordinator Catarina Canelas told the Gaudium Press.

The current Guinness World Record for tallest crochet sculpture (supported) is a 52-foot, 1.98-inch crocheted Christmas tree made in Ecuador in 2021.
SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/1...rgest-crocheted-Christmas-tree/1941671814880/
 
This one makes my brain hurt. I'm amazed that I'm only learning about it now, seeing as how it happened when I was a toddler. What's the longest anyone has been able to keep an airplane in the air? I would have guessed a week, maybe. Turns out a couple of crazy guys kept a Cessna aloft for almost 65 days! In the late 1950s. They had to go fifty days to beat the existing record, and still decided to go a couple more weeks just to make sure nobody outdid them too soon. There were twice-daily refuel and resupply sessions, involving a truck, a rope, and thermos bottles full of food. They rigged up a system that allowed them to change the engine oil while it was running. They finally landed because the engine was getting so full of carbon deposits, they had trouble climbing away from their refueling sessions. Curiously, no one has bothered to try and break the record, apparently. o_O

There are quite a few articles about it out there, but this one is a really good short one. The whole story is amazing, and so I'll link a longer one, along with a video, which is how I learned of it.

Two intrepid pilots, a modified Cessna 172 and a 64-day endurance record that has stood for 63 years.

Longer, detailed article:
https://www.aerolifeaviation.com/Resources/TheLongestFlightintheWorld

Kelsey's video. I really like this guy. He flies 747s for a living, and makes fun videos on the side.
 
You could have found out about it from me, five months ago.

;)

maximus otter
Heh! I had to do a search to find the world record thread. Never occurred to me to do a search about this particular one. Still trying to get my head around living for two months in a Cessna, only going "outdoors" to gas up the plane and take delivery of a steak dinner in a thermos bottle.
 
Preet is poles ahead of any opposition.

A British Army officer has broken a second world record in the course of an Antarctic trek.

Preet Chandi, known as Polar Preet, has not only surpassed the world record for the longest solo and unsupported polar expedition by a woman, but also the overall record.

Capt Chandi, from Sinfin in Derby, first made history trekking to the South Pole in 2021.

She said of her latest challenge: "It was the toughest thing I've ever done."

Preet Chandi
IMAGE SOURCE, PREET CHANDI Image caption, In her latest feat, Capt Chandi covered 922 miles (1,485km) in 70 days and 16 hours

Capt Chandi, 33, exceeded the previous world record of 907 miles (1,459.8km), set by Henry Worsley, a retired Lieutenant Colonel, in 2015. He was picked up from the ice 126 miles (202km) short of completing a crossing of Antarctica and, following illness, lost his life in hospital in Chile.

During the expedition, she covered 922 miles (1,485km) in 70 days and 16 hours, despite difficult conditions.

She said: "It feels incredible to have travelled such a distance, though it was always about so much more than a record. I'm just grateful that Antarctica allowed me safe passage for my journey. It was a lot tougher than last year's expedition - the toughest thing I've ever done. The conditions were harder this season but I felt it was important to keep going." ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-64455412
 
I was put in mind of 'Around the world in 80 days' earlier, and it set me thinking as to whether the 'round the world' record has been broken many times?
Turns out either I'm terrible at finding stuff out, or a specific record doesn't exist.
Oh yes, there are all sorts of circumnavigation records 'in the books'....records for 'countries visited', 'fastest flying', 'fastest sailing', etc etc but no specific 'around the world without flying' record, or at least, not one that I could find.
And you really have to rule out flying (except maybe in a balloon) as per the original '80 days' tale.
 
I was put in mind of 'Around the world in 80 days' earlier, and it set me thinking as to whether the 'round the world' record has been broken many times?
Turns out either I'm terrible at finding stuff out, or a specific record doesn't exist.
Oh yes, there are all sorts of circumnavigation records 'in the books'....records for 'countries visited', 'fastest flying', 'fastest sailing', etc etc but no specific 'around the world without flying' record, or at least, not one that I could find.
And you really have to rule out flying (except maybe in a balloon) as per the original '80 days' tale.
There is no balloon in the original novel, it was added in the David Niven film.
 
Attempting to break this record could be the kiss of death.

A Guinness World Record for the longest kiss underwater has been broken by a freediving couple who wanted to “inspire others to fall in love” with the ocean.

The four minutes and six seconds smooch between 40-year-old Beth Neale, from South Africa, and her 33-year-old fiance Miles Cloutier, from Canada, was achieved in the Maldives on February 4.

The previous record of three minutes 24 seconds, which was held by Michele Fucarino and Elisa Lazzaina, was broken after 13 years.

The record-breaking pair met five years ago through their love of ocean conservation, with Ms Neale teaching on this topic, as well as free-diving, and Mr Cloutier volunteering for the programme.

Ms Neale said that she wanted to take on the challenge to “inspire others” to share the couple’s love of all things underwater.

“Through sharing our underwater love story, we hope to inspire others to fall in love with the magic and wonder of the underwater world”, Ms Neale said.

https://www.independent.ie/world-ne...ord-for-longest-underwater-kiss-42341031.html
 
Vid at link.

The moment a world crocheting record is broken​

More than 900 people came together to set a new world crocheting record in Derby. Some had travelled from as far as the US in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record for the most people simultaneously crocheting.

The event was held at Derby Arena, as part of BBC Radio Derby's Make a Blanket campaign, on Friday. Those in attendance needed to beat the current record of 605 people and they surpassed it with 960.

The campaign has delivered more than 1,500 blankets to people in need this winter.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-derbyshire-64766538
 
Vid at link.

The moment a world crocheting record is broken​

More than 900 people came together to set a new world crocheting record in Derby. Some had travelled from as far as the US in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record for the most people simultaneously crocheting.

The event was held at Derby Arena, as part of BBC Radio Derby's Make a Blanket campaign, on Friday. Those in attendance needed to beat the current record of 605 people and they surpassed it with 960.

The campaign has delivered more than 1,500 blankets to people in need this winter.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-derbyshire-64766538
Dammit, Skargy would have been into being involved in this!.
 
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